Week 38 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Trnava, Slovakia (Clay)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 38 - Challenger (€42,500+H) - Trnava, Slovakia (Clay)

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

not looking so good in the second, break down, 3*-1 to Marek.

Allez Oli (I do like that when you say it fast!)

paulisi · Tennis legend

Not looking good for Oli, lost the second set 6-1 and a break down in the 3rd already

RJA · Hall of fame

Woeful, woeful result from Oli. To capitulate 1 and 0 against after winning the first set, against a player ranked 1697, is simply dreadful.

TMH · Futures qualifying

oliver golding ‏@oli_golding 34s
got a double sports hernia, been managing it for a while but it kicked off today mid-way thru the 2nd. surgery on saturday #muchneeded

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

TMH wrote:
oliver golding ‏@oli_golding 34s
got a double sports hernia, been managing it for a while but it kicked off today mid-way thru the 2nd. surgery on saturday #muchneeded

Well, I guess we were all wondering about an injury. Wonder why he finished the match.

What is a double sports hernia ? Wishing him all the best . . .

steven · Tennis legend

Ouch! Well it had to be something drastic, hope he can get it sorted.

korriban · Challenger level

Coup Droit wrote:
TMH wrote:
oliver golding ‏@oli_golding 34s
got a double sports hernia, been managing it for a while but it kicked off today mid-way thru the 2nd. surgery on saturday #muchneeded
Well, I guess we were all wondering about an injury. Wonder why he finished the match.

What is a double sports hernia ? Wishing him all the best . . .

Well that explains a lot. Having had a hernia operation myself as a relatively young person (not the new keyhole option, a full operation), and having "managed" it for a while beforehand, I can sympathise. You get OK days and very bad days. When it goes, it goes. I think the "sports" reference simply refers to the cause of the hernia problem - in this case sustained from sports - weight lifting is a classic culprit.

The good news is that keyhole surgery means he can be back playing within 2 weeks in theory, although in practice it takes longer to recover the confidence in your body again. Pain is the biggest problem, but you also suffer from the belief that if you are too aggressive, it could go "snap" at any moment, which for a pro tennis player is a huge inhibition on playing full power shots. He should have retired.

Good luck with the op!

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

shame, he was starting to find a bit of form, hope the op goes well

indiana · Tennis legend

Oh darn.

I'm not sure how much posters here were all wondering about an injury, certainly not publicly as folk often do re GB players' unexpected big setbacks. It just seemed more cue the ritual slaughter of Oli.

Probably wasn't exactly the wisest thing to have kept playing on today though.

Anyway hope he mends fairly quickly. I'm no expert, but I presume that will effectively end his season, but he should have plenty time to prepare for next year. Probably not the worst timing for it to blow up as it were.

korriban · Challenger level

indiana wrote:
Oh darn.

I'm not sure how much posters here were all wondering about an injury, certainly not publicly as folk often do re GB players' unexpected big setbacks. It just seemed more cue the ritual slaughter of Oli.

Probably wasn't exactly the wisest thing to have kept playing on today though.

Anyway hope he mends fairly quickly. I'm no expert, but I presume that will effectively end his season, but he should have plenty time to prepare for next year. Probably not the worst timing for it to blow up as it were.

It won't end his season at all Indy. As I said, with keyhole surgery, in theory sportsmen can be back up and playing as before within 1-2 weeks. In practice, he may not be at his best for 3-4 weeks, but that's still plenty of time at season's end.

paulisi · Tennis legend

Bad news, I expect it will be a few weeks(6-8+ in reality) before we see him back in competitive action. Cannot see him defending the 21pts he has until mid Oct, so will drop out of top 500 in October

RJA · Hall of fame

indiana wrote:
Oh darn.

I'm not sure how much posters here were all wondering about an injury, certainly not publicly as folk often do re GB players' unexpected big setbacks. It just seemed more cue the ritual slaughter of Oli.

Probably wasn't exactly the wisest thing to have kept playing on today though.

Anyway hope he mends fairly quickly. I'm no expert, but I presume that will effectively end his season, but he should have plenty time to prepare for next year. Probably not the worst timing for it to blow up as it were.

Yes I think it is effectively season over. If he is having the operation next Saturday even going with the very optimistic 2 week recovery time that takes you a full week into October and he would probably want a couple of weeks practice before playing a tournament again. That means probably just 2-3 tournaments when he comes back unless he wants to play well into November / December (Turkish futures go on till the very end of the year). I think there is some merit in Oli basically writing this year off as one of those where everything has gone wrong, yes play a couple more tournaments but with the aim of getting himself in the best possible place to start next year with a bang.

SMC1809 · All-time great

A sports hernia is a little different from a "normal" hernia It's also called Gilmore's Groin and as the name suggest is a problem in the groin area between the pubic bone and adductor muscles (in the inner thighs). Having a double sports hernia means it affects both the right and left legs.

I had one a couple of years ago, and the advice from the GP was rest for up to 12 weeks.

If he was aware that he had a problem then he was mad to continue playing. If this happened while he was playing, I'm very surprised he was able to continue. When mine went, I could barely walk for 24 hours.

Jan · Hall of fame

ouch - poor Oli. Hope the surgery is successful and he's back in the swing of things soon.